To refresh your memory, the U.S. federal court interpreter exam (English-Spanish only), is the toughest certification in this country for interpreters. The annual official pass rate is between 4 and 5 percent.

But last year interpreters who paid good money to take the exam, and even traveled across the country or from abroad, have yet to see the results. Why? The U.S. government contracted the testing process to an agency called Paradigm. They compromised the test.

To this date, we do not know the validity of the exam. The qualifications of the raters. Or the integrity of the examination process. What we know is that no one who took the exam last year has their score yet, nor have they been reimbursed for their exam, far less their travel expenses.